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The Clothes On Their Backs (2000)

by Linda Grant(Favorite Author)

3.26 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1844085414 (ISBN13: 9781844085415)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Virago Press (UK)

review 1: Well....some of the writing is very good...but what about plot? What about sympathetic characters? What about keeping the reader entertained? I skipped quite a few pages towards the middle because it just seemed to me to be a series of scenes and descriptions and quite a bit of repetition....I was bored and didn't care much for any of the characters...a dull, grey book about dull, grey people, even the uncle was a waste of a good story. As for the death of the first husband, and the subsequent abortion, the novel,could have stood well without them as they didn't connect or make me feel anything for the narrator, as if they were just plot points, and unbelievable ones at that...also, the way she meets both her husbands is so similar, they see her, they love her...really... more? Didn't make me warm to the character at all...
review 2: Two Jewish brothers, one who escaped Hungary, on the verge of WWII, the other who stayed and suffered thru a work camp, are seen in the 70's thru the eyes of a daughter/niece. One, a reclusive workaholic, has never even told his daughter they were Jewish, and the other, a flamboyant , gangster/slumlord is anxious to tell his story to his long unknown niece. The theme of clothing is ever present; Do the clothes make the man? Is the outward appearance of a person, or a life, a factor in who one really is? A powerful book , and definitely not standard Holocaust fare. less

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